He needs to run for higher office.
Posted on 12/26/2009 7:37:59 AM PST by Outside da Box
On the surface, it might seem like Jacksonville City Councilman Clay Yarborough is a real-life Grinch.
He votes "nay" more often than his 18 other council colleagues, opposing public funding for feel-good initiatives like after-school programs, affordable housing and historic preservation.
Most of the time, he's the sole dissenter.
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Wow... AWESOME!
He needs to run for higher office.
>>He votes “nay” more often than his 18 other council colleagues, opposing public funding for feel-good initiatives
“Feel-good” initiatives are something you pass when you are prosperous. Jacksonville has some of the highest unemployment in the state and tax revenues are way down for the city, so this isn’t the time for “feel-good” crap!
He should take away Corinne “Again” Brown’s House seat and take that common sense to DC.
There is never a good time for this crap. It's not the government's job to rob people of their money and spend it to make themselves feel good. Besides, it doesn't matter when you pass it, sooner or later there will less prosperous times, during which you'll still have to pay for the feel good crap.
“”It’s just as important to our overall community as is police and fire or water and sewer,” he said. “I don’t think he gets that.””
Wrong dickhead! What you don’t get is without those services you and your phony organization cease to exist.
Sounds like my kind of guy...he understands the role of government. Government exists to do that which individuals and voluntarily-organized groups of people cannot accomplish.
And that’s a pretty short list.
Who was your former congressman?
Someone who understands what principles this country was founded on...
Tim Walberg.
At the city and county level, gummint programs aren’t permanent. Also, the local council is usually made up of people that live on the local economy and pay taxes, so they’re spending their money too when they pass these things (unlike our “elected leaders” in DC).
While I’m generally against “programs” of any kind, I think that they are best handled at the local level where you can vote to fund a particular program without building a nationwide bureacracy with permanent entitlements out of it.
But, when the city is broke and is asking police, fire, and utlity workers to take pay cuts, you definitely cannot afford ANY “feel-good” programs.
Guiding Principle No. 2: Cultural and social-service programs should be supported by individuals, not government.
So simple, you wonder at times why so few elected officials seem capable of wrapping their minds around it.
Because they need such things as “feel-good” programs to get the taxpayers’ money flowing in order to dip their hands in it.
Ugh....sounds like one of those crazy right-wing conservative libertarians.
BOOT TO THE HEAD!
This guy seems like a real TEA PARTY candidate if I have seen one in a long time..!
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